Juan Davila b. 1946

  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist)
Contemporary Chilean-born Melbourne painter and installation artist
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exhibited at
Howard Arkley/Juan Davila: Icon interior
Date
2002
Place
Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
Description

This exhibition launched the Drill Hall Gallery’s program of Latin American art, which was designed to support the ANU Humanities Research Centre’s focus on Latin America that year.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
http://online.anu.edu.au/pad/drillhall/exhibitprog2002.html

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Duo, Painting
exhibited at
Juan Davila works 1988-2002
Date
2002
Place
Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
Description

This exhibition focused on themes close to Latin American culture and continued the Drill Hall Gallery’s 2002 program of Latin American art in support of the ANU Humanities Research Centre’s focus on Latin America.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
http://online.anu.edu.au/pad/drillhall/exhibitprog2002.html; Juan Davila works 1988-2002. Canberra: The Drill Hall Gallery, The Australian National University, 2002

Exhibition Catalogue:
Juan Davila works 1988-2002. Canberra: The Drill Hall Gallery, The Australian National University, 2002
ISBN 0 9581559 0 9

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Painting
exhibited at
Don’t Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS
Date
1994 - 1996
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

The National AIDS Campaign and the National Gallery of Australia joined forces in 1994 to present the major exhibition 'Don’t Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS’ – the largest exhibition on the subject of HIV/AIDS to be staged in Australia, and the first exhibition on this subject to be held at a National Gallery anywhere in the world.

The exhibition was curated by Ted Gott, Curator of European Art at the National Gallery of Australia.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
You are Here
Date
November 1992
Place
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
Description

AGLASSOFWATER project curated by Luke Roberts and Scott Redford; Initiated by the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane QLD. The Sydney Tour of You Are Here was generously assisted by the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival Limited.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
AGLASSOFWATER, Luke Roberts, Scott Redford, Bashir Baraki, Leonard Brown, Peter Cooley, Juan Davila, Brent Harris, Mathew Jones, David McDiarmid, Hiram To, Peter Tully, Ross Wallace, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Martin Browne, Sydney, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
exhibited at
Dislocations: body, memory, place
Date
9 January 1993 - 31 January 1993
Place
Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Midsumma
exhibited at
Juan Davila: paintings
Date
1992
Place
Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS
Description

A University of Tasmania touring show organised by Plimsoll Gallery Committee, Tasmanian School of Art. Funding Minister for Education and the Arts through Arts Tasmania

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Plimsoll archive

Exhibition Catalogue:
Juan Davila: Paintings. [Hobart, Tasmania]: University of Tasmania, 1992
6p. : col. ill., bio., bib

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting
exhibited at
Juan Davila
Date
1991
Place
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
CACSA exhibition archive

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo
exhibited at
Virtually there; Super 8: Australian Perspecta '85
Date
24 October 1985 - 1985
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Romance Show
Date
1984 - 1985
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Touring show from Lake Macquarie Community Gallery
1984-85 'The Romance Show’, curated by Gary Sangster, Lake Macquarie Community Gallery and touring to New England Regional Museum, Queensland School of Art Gallery, Albury/Wodonga Regional Gallery, Artspace Sydney, Contemporary Art Space Melbourne, Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide, Canberra School of Art Gallery.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Experimental Art Foundation, Group exhibition
Website
http://aeaf.org.au/
exhibited at
Juan Davila
Date
March 1984
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Exhibition of paintings & video by Juan Davila as part of the Adelaide Festival of the arts (video made with Martin Munz)

Gave lecture on perceptions of recent Adelaide work

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Stephanie Britton (ed.) A decade at the EAF: A history of the Experimental Art Foundation 1974-1984. Adelaide: The Experimental Art Foundation, 1984

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Video/Film, Painting
exhibited at
Biennale of Sydney: Visions in Disbelief
Date
7 April 1982 - 23 May 1982
Description

Curated by William Wright Visions in Disbelief celebrated “the return to painting and more traditional forms of art, the exhibition also included separate performance, sound and video sections …

Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/3806

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